They ran interference for that fat drunken blob from Massachusetts for most of my life. They are better than good at it.
I’ll never forget Ted when he had to take the stand in his nephew’s rape trial, he was irate. The two of them had been bar hopping and the enemedia couldn’t spin that.
Every thing Max knows he learned from Teddy, so why would his drinking habits be any different that that old Flubber from Mass??